What are the difficult qs on NCLEX

[staffnursepenny]

Hi

Just wondering what are the difficult questions on NCLEX?

I except that priority & delegation, select all that apply, calculations etc. BUT are these all the same level of diificulity or are these broken down again in hard harder hardest stages.

Does it matter if you are asked only some of the 'harder' questions eg priority but no sata? Does the type of difficult questions signify how well you have done? eg if you get select & drag you are at a higher level than priority?

Thanks-can you tell Iam starting to worry!!!:redpinkhe

[suzanne4, RN]

Calculations are usually considered at a lower level as you have been tested on these in school and had to pass a math test to get thru school. My personal take is that I do not like it when someone gets math calculations on the exam.

Priority are at the higher end when going by levels. For the others, it depends on what is in the question, not just the type of question.

If you remember that the exam is trying to see how you will do with information that you have learned in school and have already been tested on, then it will be easier for you to see which they consider at a higher level.

Hope that this helps.

[BoonersmomRN]

Suzanne.

Not to thread jump but I have to wonder about the med calc part. I passed with 75 questions and I had 2 med calcs..and they were EASY ones...and they were within the last 5 questions. Considering what you have said it almost doesn't make sense that the test would throw me " such easy level questions" that late in the exam unless they were test ( the ones that don't count) questions? It threw me them after 3 SATA that I know I nailed....just wondering!

[gt4everpn, BSN, RN]

All of them....

just joking, priority questions can be tricky, patient A is so and so and patient B has this, who needs attention first! remember ABC and safety!!

[suzanne4, RN]

Suzanne.

Not to thread jump but I have to wonder about the med calc part. I passed with 75 questions and I had 2 med calcs..and they were EASY ones...and they were within the last 5 questions. Considering what you have said it almost doesn't make sense that the test would throw me " such easy level questions" that late in the exam unless they were test ( the ones that don't count) questions? It threw me them after 3 SATA that I know I nailed....just wondering!

They are not considered of the higher level question for any of the calculation questions. And as you have mentioned, the test questions can be thrown in at any place. Just because you got them doesn't really mean a thing, especially since you passed the exam and only had two of them.

When students have not passed and they then go on to mention that they had 7 or 8 math questions, it means that the exam was trying to do as it could to get them thru it, if you look at it that way.

If asking what is the most important type of questions to be getting and it is always the priority questions. I have yet to see anyone pass that did not get those and actually quite a few of them.

[wishiwereanurse, BSN, RN]

how about the ones that require you to transfer patients into another area, where do those belong to?